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out of treaty

DCHP-1 (pre-1967)

Entry from the DCHP-1 (pre-1967)

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of an Indian, not in receipt of treaty money.

See: non-treaty ((adj.)),treaty Indian,treaty money

Quotations

1956

The fact is, that like most of his compatriots in the North, Abraham lived like an Indian, spoke only Cree, and he was a "half-breed" merely by virtue of having had, somewhere in the dim past, a white man as an ancestor. That, and his preference to remain "out of Treaty."